The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

hypocrisy and humbuggery which have
characterized its course in these matters.
THE legislature of Minnesota was
one of the first to move in the matter
of car-heating, and it has before it
now bill requiring all railroads in the
state to add to every passenger train an
iron or steel car in which must be
placed the heat and light-producing
apparatus. The New York legislature
has passed resolution directing the
railroads to introduce safe methods of
lighting and heating cars, and the state
railroad commission is investigating
proposed inventions to this end. The
legislature of Massachusetts, is engaged
in similar task, and the legislature of
Connecticut has likewise taken the first
step in the same direction, and probably
the subject will be brought before most
of the many legislatures in session this
winter. The Central Vermont mana
gers are about to experiment with
steam-heating.
In the long run, average men prefer
man who believes something and
whose conduct is shaped by his beliefs
to one who maintains an air of flippant
nonchalance toward all convictions,
and is avowedly not governed by any.
The same principle holds as regards
newspapers. Average people like 10y
atty to conviction and to political prin-
ciples in newspaper, as they like SINH
lar qualities in man. There is, of
course, a thick-and-thin partisan sub
serviency, which forfeits a newspaper
some portion of its influence, as it
ought to. But, oddly enough, this
quality often exists in connection with
the loudest professions of political In
dependence-spelt with a capital /.
To 90 no farther back than the last two
or three years, we should hardly know
where to find, in the distinctively party
press, so called, any more abject sup
preston of facts, coloring of truths OF
reticence where courageous utterance
was called for, than in the columns of
papers reputed to be independent
Boston Journal.
The Burlington Free Press denies
the statements of g Veteran " in the
Rutland Herald, that it declined to
mention that the remains of the late
James A. Stone were at Undertaken
Livingston's because Livingston did
not advertise in the Free Press. Ii
says Mr.. Livingston is a regular adver.
tiser in the Free Press, and that it was
out of regard for the feelings of the
family that the omission was made
But " Veteran says I" it was the de.
sire of the family of the deceased, and
also of Stannard Post, G. A. r., that
public announcement be made of the
place where the remains were lying
awaiting burial" William G.. Schroeder
adiutant of Stannard Post, writes tC
the Herald that the statements of " Vet
eran" are substantially correct. He
says: When | stated to the night
editor that the remains were at Under.
taker Livingston's he turned to some
one in the composing-room or adioin-
ing Office and asked the question
Does Livingston advertise in the Free
Press p did not fully catch the an
swer, but from the fact that the night
editor had written down in his notes
Mr.. Livingston's name, and it did not
appear in the Free Press of the next
morning, the inference was unavoid-
able" Post Commander Trick vindi-
Gates the course of the Free Press.